So you're gonna have your ups and downs in the short and medium terms thanks to interest rates,

thanks to fiscal policies, thanks to a lot of different factors, macroeconomic factors,

recessions and so on. But guess what? As Peter Lynch once said, we've had historically

13 recessions and we've had 13 recoveries out of those recessions.

I'm Mary Long and that's Motley Fool, senior analyst Yasser Elchemy. If a growth stock gets

cut in half, is it on sale or just less expensive? Ricky Mulvey caught up with Yasser to discuss the

macro landscape for high growth companies, a mission critical software company now treating at

half its IPO price and a rocket maker with galactic ambitions.

When others get fearful it's time to do something I forget the rest of the quote. Anyway, joining us

now to talk about some strong, growthy companies in a down cycle is Motley Fool's senior analyst Yasser

Elchemy. Thanks for joining us on this journey. Hi Ricky, good to be here. When I think about investing

in super growthy companies, I almost think of it as like a venture capital approach. Would you agree

with that? Yes, so you know our Motley Fool co-founder and chief rule breaker David Garner has in fact

kind of almost coined that term of a VC approach towards public investing. You know, in that approach

you look for young, innovative, relatively small companies with massive runways for future growth,

great products, invested leadership, and ideally a purposeful mission. And you know,

ideally also you want to have your portfolio reflect your best vision for the future and that's

kind of like even when you see in the VC world where a lot of investors tend to back companies

that they feel strongly about. You may want to also do that with your own personal investment

portfolio. And one thing we have to keep in mind also with the kind of VC style of investing is

that VC investors tend to hold their investments over very long periods of time and even tend to

upsize their stakes in those companies that show themselves to be resilient and successful. So as

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